Flexible handle for containers



Dec. 15, 1925- 1,566,062

E. M. ATKINSON FLEXIBLE HANDLE FOR CONTAINERS Filed Feb. 1925 new TOR,

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FLEXIBLE HANDLE FOR CONTAINERS.

Application filed February 18, 1925.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD M. ATKIN- soN, a citizen of the United States, residing in Portland, county of Multnomah and State of Oregon (and whose address is post-o'flice box 159, in said Portland), have invented a new and useful Improvement in Flexible Handles for Containers, of which the tollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved type of handles for cans, bottles or other C(ii iners, and is so constructed as to be adaptable to many shapes, and readily-attached or detached. This is done by the small size iron wire. Other handles orbans are oftentimes made of tension or spring wire, and are unnecessarily rigid. Such material is hard and slow to manipulate. Machines "for that purpose are costly,

and bending o? tension wire to order is re Eu by large factories. My improvement can be made with hand nippers and a punch. or by simple machines to work the soft wire. Production can thus be carried on cheaply over a wide section by amateurs. Material used is preferably small size galvanized wire and waste pieces of thin galvanized iron. The wire is straightened by stretching and is rubbed with en'iery cloth whilr in these long lengths to polish it for a ii- 3' 'lliunblin quickly removes cutting ends of this sort round and flat metal.

Economy is gained by using only four coils in connection with three bends of the wires. as these give all the strength needed. in locking the handle on containers. These coils can easily be increased or lessened to t e wire snugly to containers. Durability is secured by a simple means of attaching or detaching the device, which is by one motion for each. like a hook and eye. The flat metal of the handle provides space For notices or advertising.

This eapcued constriwtion permits low prircs. which w ll ii'urreasc sales.

l lti'. l is a side view of my improved lie he handle attached to a milk bottle.

liig. ll shows the flat metal part of the handle held in position.

i ig. HT is side view oi the top part oi? the flexible handle. showing how it is iastei'ied to the wire, encircling bottles, etc.

Fig. IV shows my improved flexible handle detached from milk bottle.

In these figures. 1 is a bottle, 3 the top Serial No. 10,053.

part of the handle, of which 3 is the wire passed through holes 6, 6 in the flat metal 4-. and joined to wire 7 by a coil 12 at its depression 11 to center it in the encircling wire 7. 5. 5 are folds in the cut olt corners of the fiat metal which prevent its rolling on wire 3 by being bent against it.

The angular shape of wire 3 shown in Figs. I and IV with its end 13 passed through coils 9 and 10 of the encircling wire 7 and through coil 8 of wire 3, is the locking device. The handle is detached from a bottle by unhooking the end 13 from its coil 8; which motion also moves wire backward through coil 10. This allows enough slack to pass the handle over the neck of bottles or to disengage it from other containers.

The various angular bends made in W} re 3'hold it securely in place in the coils. The operation just described does not materially change these shapes nor will it break the wire. It is evident that this type of handle can be used on many shapes of containers, and if necessary can be lengthened by splic ing to encircle several packages.

I claim:

1. A flexible handle for containers and made of two pieces of small size iron wire, one about three-(pIarters the length of the other and terminating in coils. which wire encircled at a depression midway oi the coiled ends by the coiled end of the longer wire. which also has a second coil but formed distant enough from its tip to allow this wire end to pass through it after going through coils at the ends of the shorter wire. and drawn taut so as to have about the shape of an equilateral triangle.

2. A flexible handle for containers and made o'l twopicces 01%. small size iron wire, one about three-quarters the length of the other and terminating in coils. and encircled a. a depression midway by the coiled end of the longer wire. which also has a second coil, but formed distant enough from its tip to allow this wire end to pass through it after going through coils at the ends ol': the short wire and drawn taut so as to have about the shape of an equilateral triangle; the longer wire having a piece of flat metal threaded thereon between its coils; the cut oil corners of such flat metal being pressed against this longer wire.

EDWARD H. ATKINSON. 

